Example sentences of "[coord] of [noun] of [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Racks and Torments ! dost think , Child , that my Limbs were made for leaping of Ditches , and clambring over Stiles ; or that my Parents wisely foreseeing my future Happiness in Country-pleasures , had early instructed me in the rural Accomplishments of drinking fat Ale , playing at Whisk , and smoaking Tobacco with my Husband ; or of spreading of Plaisters , brewing of Diet-drinks , and stilling Rosemary-Water with the good old Gentlewoman , my Mother-in-Law … . |
| 2 | Rather the assertion is that explicit training is not necessary to produce discrimination , that the need to extract information from the environment is enough to do so , independently of any externally imposed rewards or punishments or of knowledge of results more generally . |
| 3 | In the past 10 years there have been many suggestions of an increased incidence of cancer , or of clusters of cases , in the vicinity of nuclear installations . |
| 4 | The story of the Borders is largely one of cattle-rustling on a scale which would have amazed even the American Wild West , of internecine feuds as violent as those of Sicily , and of cliques of racketeers who brought into the language the term ‘ blackmail ’ , meaning ‘ black meal ’ or ‘ black rent ’ — in other words , protection money . |
| 5 | The Management Studies Board was to be reconstituted appropriately , and was ‘ to report to the Council and the two Committees upon the machinery which may be necessary to ensure a continuity of standard and of provision of courses at diploma level ’ . |
| 6 | A study of a bakery in south-east England uncovered a highly organised system of stealing from work and of fiddling of customers by the bread salesmen ( Ditton , 1977 ) . |
| 7 | However , the level of total exports and of exports of manufactures rose throughout the long boom and the 1970s . |
| 8 | The accountability of business and of boards of directors is a much-discussed aspect of corporate life . |
| 9 | ‘ It is evidently necessary to note both the low levels of responsibility and of readiness of captains and crews of foreign submarines on observation trips . |
| 10 | If , as Marxism postulates , the final catastrophe of Capitalism is to be triggered by a crisis of under-utilisation of capacity and of over-supply of goods , then the General Theory provides the remedy : a positive investment policy by the State and deficit financing in certain circumstances . |
| 11 | It follows , therefore , that our priorities are based on protecting the welfare not only of individual animals but of groups of animals , and this priority has to be followed even in circumstances where to carry out that protection might conceivably have an adverse effect on the environment . |